October 4, 2010
A Russell County circuit judge on August 31, 2010, granted Alabama death row prisoner James Harrison's request for postconviction relief. Following...
September 24, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court today reversed Esaw Jackson's capital murder conviction and death sentence because highly emotional and prejudicial...
July 20, 2010
EJI attorneys recently argued that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals should order a new trial for death row prisoner Mark Brown because the judge...
May 31, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court recently granted EJI's request for review of Esaw Jackson's capital murder conviction and death sentence. The case raises...
May 9, 2010
United States Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens told a judicial conference audience that DNA testing has revealed that the risk of...
April 30, 2010
A Dale County Circuit Court has ordered a new trial for Emanuel Gissendanner because his trial lawyers' poor performance and the prosecution's...
April 26, 2010
On Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court held that death row inmate James Harrison has a right to have a judge consider his claim that jurors engaged in...
March 25, 2010
EJI staff with honoree Diane Jones, second from left.
On March 23, 2010, EJI honored George Kendall, Director of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey's...
March 19, 2010
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed the summary denial of death row inmate Robert Ingram's postconviction petition because it could not be...
March 5, 2010
On March 5, 2010, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Jodey Waldrop's conviction and death sentence, ruling that his jury improperly was...
